{"id":25870,"date":"2016-06-10T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=25870"},"modified":"2016-06-10T08:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:50:27","slug":"lauren-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/lauren-mclaughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"lauren mclaughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/lauren-mclaughlin\/laurenmclaughlin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25876\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/laurenmclaughlin.jpg\" alt=\"laurenmclaughlin\" width=\"584\" height=\"5505\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I <em>just<\/em> added a &#8220;submit your work&#8221; button to my site <em>{look up and to your left}<\/em>, and boy oh boy am I glad I did! That&#8217;s how I got my hands on these\u00a0collages. They&#8217;re part of a series titled,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><em>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk\/#\/try-not-to-overthink-things-dear\/\" target=\"_blank\">Try Not To Overthink Things Dear\u2019<\/a><\/em>, by\u00a0<\/span>Scotland based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren McLaughlin<\/a>. Clearly that title spoke to me\u00a0immediately,\u00a0as did the story that\u00a0Lauren\u00a0sent along with her submission:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;&#8230;I\u2019m attaching a few collages from my most recent series titled \u2018Try not to overthink things dear\u2019 which were made as a response to the realisation that I was constantly overthinking what I was doing in my practice. After suffering from a creative block and massive confidence crusher of being rejected for several funding applications I decided to stop overthinking and just make\u2026. so I locked myself in my studio for a week with a supply of vintage magazines, books and various cuttings I had collected over the past few months and these were the results.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yes, yes&#8230; <em>YES!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I just added a &#8220;submit your work&#8221; button to my site {look up and to your left}, and boy oh boy am I glad I did! That&#8217;s how I got my hands on these\u00a0collages. They&#8217;re part of a series titled,\u00a0\u2018Try Not To Overthink Things Dear\u2019, by\u00a0Scotland based artist Lauren McLaughlin. Clearly that title spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25870"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25894,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870\/revisions\/25894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}